Ja'Wuan Woodley: LB · Toledo · #30.
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Ja'Wuan Woodley
Is steady in every phase without a signature trait. The four seasons at Toledo span two head coaches: Matt Campbell and Jason Candle. On tape: 9 tackles and 1 tackle for loss against Western Michigan, Week 13, 2017.
Play style
Solid in every phase without a signature dimension.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
66 tackles. 3 passes defended. 1 interception. 4.5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 47-13vs Elon | 5 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | W 37-24@ Nevada | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 54-51vs Tulsa | 6 | 4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 30-52@ No. 14 Miami | 8 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 20-15vs Eastern Michigan | 4 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 30-10@ Central Michigan | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 8 | W 48-21vs Akron | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 58-17@ Ball State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 27-17vs Northern Illinois | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 11 | L 10-38@ Ohio | 7 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 37-10vs Western Michigan | 9 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 9 tackles |
| Wk 14 | W 45-28vs Akron | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 0-34vs App State | 7 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 66 | 37 | 4.5 | 2.0 | 1 | 3 |
Week 1 · 2017
W 47-13
vs Elon
1 sack · 1 tackle for loss · 5 tackles
Dominant 34-point win at home against Elon.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Tackle volume
66tackles this seasonTFL rate
7%4 TFLSack rate
3%2 sacksPD rate
5%3 pass breakups66 tackles · 4.5 for loss · 2 sacks · 1 interception.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 5.2 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Road5g | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Jason Candle
Pass share
43.6%
423 pass / 547 run
Plays / game
69.3
14 games
Team sack rate
5.0%
457 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
About as many tackles a game as a typical FBS linebacker who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Toledo, 145 tackles — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Matt Campbell → Jason Candle. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
